Bibliographic records of Angola mammals

Patricia Rodrigues1, Rui Figueira1, Pedro Beja2

1 Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Trav Conde da Ribeira 9, 1300-142, Lisboa, Portugal; 2 CIBIO/InBio – Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal

Corresponding author(s): Patricia Rodrigues (patriciarodrigues@cibio.up.pt), Rui Figueira (ruifigueira@isa.ulisboa.pt), Pedro Beja (pbeja@cibio.up.pt)

Received {date}; Revised {date}; Accepted {date}; Published {date}

Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Rodrigues P, Figueira R, Beja P (2014): Bibliographic records of Angola mammals. v2.2. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Dataset/Occurrence. http://maerua.iict.pt/ipt/resource?r=agomammals&amp;v=2.2 https://doi.org/10.15468/0v4b7o

Abstract

Compilation of records of Angolan mammals, gathered by Crawford-Cabral and colleagues in 4 publications (Crawford-Cabral 1998, Crawford-Cabral and Simões 1987, 1988 and Crawford-Cabral and Veríssimo 2005) of the Instituto de Investigação Científica de Portugal. It holds around 10.000 records of 140 species and subspecies of carnivores, ungulates and rodents of Angola. It has an historical value since the bulk of the dataset is from the 20th century (mainly from 1930-1980). The taxonomic nomenclature is the one used by Crawford-Cabral and follows the general lines of 2nd edition of Wilson & Reeder’s Mammal Species of the World (1993).

Keywords: Occurrence
Mammals 
Angola
Literature Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Angola biodiversity revisited: using biological collections in the conservation planning of poorly surveyed regions
Personnel: Rui Figueira
Funding: This study was funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through a fellowship SFRH/BI/51642/2011.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Angola is located along the south-western coast of Africa (4º22’S, 18º03’S). Elevation varies from 0 to 2620 m a.s.l., with the littoral plains separated from the inland plateau by a north-south escarpment running in parallel to the coast. Climate ranges from tropical wet/humid in the north to extremely arid in the southwest. Angola has a diverse array of ecosystems and is biologically mega-diverse, encompassing 15 WWF Ecoregions.

Data published through GBIF: http://maerua.iict.pt/ipt/resource?r=agomammals

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The taxonomic coverage of the dataset includes 140 taxa (species and subspecies) of the orders Carnivora, Rodentia, Artiodactyla, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, Proboscidea, Sirenia, Tubulidentata. Ungulates are the group best represented, with largest number of records (7053) followed by rodents (2037) and carnivores (789).
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, Proboscidea, Rodentia, Sirenia, Tubulidentata
Family: Antilopinae, Bovinae, Canidae, Cricetomyidae, Elephantidae, Equidae, Felidae, Gerbillidae, Giraffidae, Herpestidae, Hippopotamidae, Hyaenidae, Muridae, Mustelidae, Nandiniidae, Nesomyidae, Orycteropodidae, Procavidae, Rhinocerotidae, Suidae, Tragulidae, Trichechidae, Viverridae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The geographic range of the records covers Angola.
Coordinates: 18°35'24''S and 4°5'60''S Latitude; 11°5'24''E and 25°1'48''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1860 - 1999

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: NA
Collection name: Bibliographic records of Angola mammals
Collection identifier: c8f0799b-aeb9-4ecc-868e-6b92acefe90d

Methods

Method step description: Information was collected from the following publications:

Crawford-Cabral J (1998) The Angola rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. An account on their distribution. Estudos Ensaios e Documentos, 161. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical.  Lisboa.

Crawford-Cabral J, Simões AP (1987) Distributional data and notes on Angolan carnivores (Mammalia: Carnivora) I – Small and medium-sized species. Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia 14: 3-27. 

Crawford-Cabral J, Simões AP (1988) Distributional data and notes on Angolan carnivores (Mammalia: Carnivora) II – Larger species. Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia 15: 9-20. 

Crawford-Cabral J, Veríssimo LN (2005) The ungulate fauna of Angola. Systematic list, distribution maps, database report. Estudos Ensaios e Documentos, 163. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Lisboa. 

All records listed in the publications were introduced into a database file. Each records was assigned to a quarter-degree grid cell. Information was georeferenced in the Camacupa projection and then projected to WGS 1984.
Study extent description: The study geographic extent corresponds to Angola, located along the south-western coast of Africa (4º22’S, 18º03’S). Ungulate taxa are well represented across the country, but records for rodents and carnivores are lacking in the northwest region (provinces of Zaire and Uíge) and in the southeastern regions of the country (mainly in the provinces of Moxico and Cuando-Cubango). The exact date of the records is unknown, and therefore the date of the record's publication is used as a proxy of temporal spanning. The temporal range of the dataset is 1860-1999, but the bulk of information is concentrated in the decades of 1950-1980.
Sampling description: The records gathered in this dataset were compiled and published by Crawford-Cabral and colleagues and correspond to information gathered during scientific expeditions carried out in Angola during the 20th century, complemented with museum specimens and literature records revised by the authors. The records compiled were georefenced at a resolution of quarter degree cell (approximately 25x25km), following the georeferencing scheme of Crawford-Cabral and colleagues.
Quality control description: All of the records were was thoroughly scan for potential error, with a particular emphasis on potential misallocation of observation records.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Bibliographic records of Angola mammals
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://maerua.iict.pt/ipt/archive.do?r=agomammals
Publication date of data: 2018-04-24
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-11-13
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Crawford-Cabral J (1998) The Angola rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. An account on their distribution. Estudos Ensaios e Documentos, 161. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical.  Lisboa. NA
Crawford-Cabral J, Simões AP (1987) Distributional data and notes on Angolan carnivores (Mammalia: Carnivora) I – Small and medium-sized species. Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia 14: 3-27. NA
Crawford-Cabral J, Simões AP (1988) Distributional data and notes on Angolan carnivores (Mammalia: Carnivora) II – Larger species. Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia 15: 9-20. NA
Crawford-Cabral J, Veríssimo LN (2005) The ungulate fauna of Angola. Systematic list, distribution maps, database report. Estudos Ensaios e Documentos, 163. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Lisboa. NA
Crawford-Cabral J,  Mesquitela LM (1989) Índice toponímico de colheitas zoológicas em Angola. Estudos Ensaios e Documentos, 151. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical.  Lisboa. NA